Edinburgh HR Admin Support For Small Businesses
Most Edinburgh businesses under 50 staff don't need an in-house HR manager — they need HR admin done properly. VA365 HR365 does it from £599/month.
Edinburgh small businesses sit in an awkward HR gap. Under about 50 staff you don't have the volume to justify an in-house HR manager (£35,000–£45,000+ loaded). But you do have the legal exposure: contracts, right-to-work, GDPR, ACAS-compliant disciplinary, holiday tracking, statutory pay.
Most owners cover the gap by doing it themselves badly, paying a solicitor £250/hour every time something goes wrong, or buying a £49/month HR portal nobody uses.
VA365 HR365 is the middle path: outsourced HR admin run by a UK team, with templates and policies kept current to UK and Scottish employment law. Onboarding new starters — contract, right-to-work check, payroll setup, induction pack. Maintaining records — holiday, sickness, training, reviews. Drafting routine letters — probation, performance, contractual changes. Escalating anything genuinely legal to a specialist solicitor before it becomes expensive.
Typical Edinburgh client: a 12-person agency or trades firm paying £599–£999/month for HR365 instead of £40,000+ for an internal HR manager. The owner's HR admin time drops from 4 hours a week to a 15-minute Friday check-in.
Book a 15-minute call with Jo — bring the messiest part of your current HR setup and we'll tell you honestly whether HR365 fixes it.